What can I say.  I woke up this morning to the sound of a steady beep.  At first I thought it was a dream.  Then I wondered if someone broke in.  finally I remembered that my log scanner app was set to beep once if it finished, continuously if it found something.  I don’t know how long it was beeping, but I stumbled out of bed and dashed into my office.  The app had found something something in the log.  The boring cyclic pattern ceased just prior to the termination of the log on the second drive.  In it’s place were what appeared to be short and tall pulses at the same frequency as the 42 pulses seen earlier in the log.  The first grouping simply had 42 tall pulses.  From that point on, if there is a pattern I can’t see one.  Looks pretty random to me.

But, if the pulses were something though, I’d guess the short and long pulses were standard binary bits.  Each complete number would then be composed of 42 pulses, or bits.  I don’t have much time before work, so I just wrote a quick script to collect groups of 42 bits and record their decimal number equivalent.  Maybe I’ll see a pattern in that.  I don’t know where this is going.  It looks like another long weekend ahead of me.  The fact that it’s Friday the 13th isn’t helping…